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Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Reiss, David; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Spotts, Erica L.; Hansson, Kjell; Cederblad, Marianne; Ellhammer,Olle – Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examined 2 samples of adolescents and mothers using a child-based design (Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development [NEAD] project, N = 395 families) and a parent-based design (Twin Moms [TM] project, N = 236 twin family pairs) to compare genetic and environmental influences on mothering. For both samples, the same measures of…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Siblings, Mothers, Genetics
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Petrill, Stephen A.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Thompson, Lee Anne; DeThorne, Laura S.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
The present study combined parallel data from the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) and the Western Reserve Reading Project (WRRP) to examine sibling similarity and quantitative genetic model estimates for measures of reading skills in 272 school-age sibling pairs from three family types (monozygotic twins, dizygotic…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Cognitive Ability, Twins, Reading Skills